TENTERDEN SCHOOLS TRUST

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  Material uncertainty over going concern

  Given this strategic decision, the Trustees do not consider it appropriate to prepare the 2025 financial statements on a going concern basis. The accounts have therefore been prepared on a basis consistent with the Trust's planned closure and transfer of operations within twelve months of the date of approval.

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  6 officer resignations in last 12 months

  Multiple officers have left the board recently — see the People section for who.

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  2 PSCs ceased in last 24 months

  Significant control changed hands — see the Ownership section.

1. TENTERDEN SCHOOLS TRUST 2016-11-24 → present
2. HOMEWOOD SCHOOL & SIXTH FORM CENTRE 2011-08-10 → 2016-11-24

Values shown as filed in the company's annual accounts. — indicates the figure wasn't present under that line item in that period. About these numbers

Margins divide P&L lines by turnover. Gearing is liabilities over total assets. Current ratio is current assets over creditors falling due within one year. Interest cover is operating profit over absolute finance costs. Sector-distribution context coming next.

Accounting basis

FRS 102

Reporting scope

Standalone (parent only)

Auditor

UHY Hacker Young

Audit opinion

Unqualified (clean)

Going concern

Material uncertainty disclosed

“Given this strategic decision, the Trustees do not consider it appropriate to prepare the 2025 financial statements on a going concern basis. The accounts have therefore been prepared on a basis consistent with the Trust's planned closure and transfer of operations within twelve months of the date of approval.”

Group structure

1. TENTERDEN SCHOOLS TRUST · parent
   1. Home Farm Children's Nursery Ltd. 100% · England & Wales · education provision to children aged from 6 months to 4 years old

Significant events

• “On 19 June 2025, the Members of the Trust passed a Special Resolution to officially adopt the Department for Education's (DfE) current Model Articles of Association for Church of England Multi Academy Trusts.”
• “The Trust has restructured its committee framework to improve efficiencies. This year, a new People, Culture and Pay Committee has been formed, and the former Finance and Resources Committee and the Audit and Risk Committee have been merged to form the Financial Management, Audit and Risk Committee (FMARC).”
• “These changes to the organisation's governance committee structure were approved in July 2025 and implemented at the beginning of September 2025.”
• “Following consultation with stakeholders in November 2025, the Board decided to transfer all TST academies to a well-respected Kent-based multi-academy trust. Approvals are being sought from the Canterbury Diocesan Board of Education and the Department for Education, with the transfer expected to conclude by the end of the Spring Term 2026.”
• “An irregular non-contractual severance payment was made without prior DfE approval.”
• “The Academy Trust purchased alcohol for sale at the Sinden Theatre operated by the Trust.”

Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers

Filings

14

last 12 months

Capital events

0

last 24 months

Officers appointed

0

last 12 months

Officers resigned

6

last 12 months

Direct counts from the register. No score, no rating — see the Filing timeline for the underlying events.

• Turnover

  -2.2%

  £20,090,000 → £19,656,000

• Cash

  +4.4%

  £2,853,000 → £2,978,000

• Net assets

  +1.6%

  £38,256,000 → £38,886,000

• Employees

  -10.5%

  392 → 351

• Wages

  +1.2%

  £11,486,000 → £11,624,000

Each % is (latest − prior) ÷ |prior| for the line item as filed. The comparison is only shown when the latest and prior accounts cover broadly equal-length periods — short or long stubs (typical around incorporation or a year-end change) are suppressed rather than misrepresented. Lines a company doesn't report are omitted. About these numbers